Fifth meeting hosted by Statistics Iceland, Reykjavik, 25 - 27 August, 1999
Report of the meeting
Session 1 - Treatment of quality change in price indices for durable goods
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Greenlees, Fixler, Lane, Fortuna -
The Use of Hedonic Regressions to Handle Quality Change: The Experience in the U.S. CPI
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Hoffmann -
The Treatment of Quality Changes in the German Consumer Price Index
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Hoven -
Some observations on quality adjustment in the Netherlands
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Lacroix, Bascher -
Dish-washers and PCs in the French CPI: hedonic modeling, from design to practice
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Lowe -
The use of the regression approach to quality change for durables in Canada
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Sandberg -
Quality adjustments and capital goods
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Schultz -
Alternative estimates of price change for private transportation
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Sellwood -
Quality Change a Statistical Approach
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Silver, Heravi -
The Measurement of Quality-Adjusted Price Changes
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Rósmundur Guðnason -
Ottawa Group quality database (OGQD)
paperpresentation
Session 2 - Different concepts of price indices serving different purposes
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Balk -
On Curing the CPI's Substitution and New Goods Bias
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Dalén -
A proposal for a new system of aggreation in the Swedish Consumer Price Index
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Diewert -
The Consumer Price Index and Index Number Purpose
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Fenwick -
The impact of choice of base month on the relative performance of different formulae used for aggregation of Consumer Price Index data at an elementary aggregate level
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Triplett -
Should the Cost-of-Living Index Provide the Conceptual Framework for a Consumer Price Index?
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Turvey -
True Cost of Living Indexes
paperpresentation
Room documents
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Hill -
COL Indexes and Inflation Indexes
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Guðnason, Snorrason -
Use of cash register data
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Astin -
The European Union harmonized indices of consumer prices (HICP)
paperpresentation
Session 3 - The planned revision of the ILO manual
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Obst -
Draft Chapter Outline for the Revised CPI Manual
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TEG -
Development of International Handbook on Consumer Price Indices
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Turvey -
CPI Terminology. First draft which has not yet been discussed with Eurostat
paperpresentation
Room Documents
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IMF, TEG-PPI -
IMF, TEG-PPI: Background and Points for Discussion Regarding Development of a Forum for PPI Issues
paperpresentation